Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)?

From	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)?
Date	2020-09-22 18:18 -0400
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> I hate getting overly involved in this, but not only is GPU lexing
> possible, it probably isn't that complicated.

Indeed.  Extra bonus points if you do it generically by having the `lex`
tool do that parallelization for you.  I think in the general case it
could be a potentially costly parallelization, but in practice it should
be pretty efficient for most programming languages.


        Stefan

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Re: Parsing using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2020-09-03 17:52 +0300
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